Computational Restrictions on Iterative Prosodic Processes
Hossep Dolatian, Nate Koser, Jon Rawski, Kristina Strother-Garcia
March 2021 

We demonstrate a computational restriction on iterative prosody in phonology by using logical transductions. We show that the typology is fundamentally local but requires output recursion, formulated via quantifier-free transductions and least-fixed-point operators, respectively. We focus on two case studies from iterative prosody. One is iterative secondary stress. The other is more complex: iterative syllabification and epenthesis in Arabic dialects. The second case study involves formalizing Ito (1989)’s analysis of directional syllabification.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/005721 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Annual Meeting on Phonology
keywords:	prosody, logical transductions, epenthesis, syllabification, stress, phonology
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